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Go Absurd 103 – Have An Absurd New Year, Just Like…

  “…because this blog* is absurd, I love it; because it is useless, I want to give it away; and because wanting to give it to you serves no purpose, I give it to you…” (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet ) *book (in the original quote from Pessoa) Quote of the Day “I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.” (Franz Kafka,  Letters to Felice‎ ) An Absurd World… A UK couple in their mid-20’s, arguably at the height of their sexual urges and powers, have claimed that they only have sex once a year: on Christmas day https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/13492374/only-sex-once-year-december-25-christmas-present/ A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said… His dick was bigger than his eyes Book Title You Will Probably Never See… I Want To Go To A Large Automobile Show To Show Off My Large Pen (and other tales of Heroin and Heroism) A Possibly Wise, Possibly Foo...

Go Absurd 102 – Better Late Than

  “…because this blog* is absurd, I love it; because it is useless, I want to give it away; and because wanting to give it to you serves no purpose, I give it to you…” (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet ) *book (in the original quote from Pessoa) Quote of the Day “It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false.” (E. M. Cioran) A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said You know what they say about dirty underpants?! They’re Muddy! A Sometimes Cruel and Absurd World… An Australian mother of two has died after falling 80 metres from a scenic clifftop in front of her family after climbing over a safety barrier to take a photo. This isn’t the first time this has happened at the popular tourist spot https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9048289/Grampians-National-Park-Victoria-Mum-two-plunged-100m-deat...

Go Absurd 101 – Where People Come to Go

  “…because this blog* is absurd, I love it; because it is useless, I want to give it away; and because wanting to give it to you serves no purpose, I give it to you…” (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet ) *book (in the original quote from Pessoa) Quote of the Day “…But all of that is nonsense now; so is life itself.” (Arthur Rimbaud, writing in one of his letters…) An Absurd World… A COVID-19 inspired art work completed by Banksy on the side wall of a house in Bristol could be worth up to 5 million pounds… https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13437327/new-banksy-graffiti-woman-sneezing-worth-5-million/ A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said… It’s like the pot calling the kettle for a booty call Book Title You Will Probably Never See… The Pornographic Story Of A Woman and Man Who Lived On Their Knees: NOW in 3D!! A Possibly Wise, Possibly Foolish Question… Do donkeys’ have ears when they fornicate?   The Meaning...

Go Absurd 100 – 100 Times Pointless

“…because this blog* is absurd, I love it; because it is useless, I want to give it away; and because wanting to give it to you serves no purpose, I give it to you…” (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet ) *book (in the original quote from Pessoa) Quote of the Day “The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest” (Georges Bataille)   An Absurd World… A man named Adolf Hitler has won a local council election in Namibia but doesn’t see what all the fuss is with his name… https://www.euronews.com/2020/12/04/adolf-hitler-has-won-a-local-council-election-in-namibia A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said 12 wrongs don’t make a right, unless you are left Book Title You Will Probably Never See… The 12-Step Guide to Standing Still: Eliminating All Steps to Indulge The Circle A Possibly Wise, Possibly Foolish Question… What does meaning have to do with meaning? The Meaning ...

Go Absurd 99 – It’s The Little Things, and big things, That Don’t Matter

“…because this blog* is absurd, I love it; because it is useless, I want to give it away; and because wanting to give it to you serves no purpose, I give it to you…” (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet ) *book (in the original quote from Pessoa) Quote of the Day “The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live – moreover, the only one.”  (E. M. Cioran) An Absurd World… Huge numbers of people applying to work at McDonald’s… https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/law-graduates-mcdonalds-rejection-email-23081786 We’ve got a really rigorous selection process at McDonald’s and a large number of people apply to work with us each day…   A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said Up in the hills is down in the valleys Book Title You Will Probably Never See… How To Migrate To The Sahara Desert: Or Was It A Southern Dessert?   The Meaning of Life? Eating ice-cream and defecating while it snows Said No ...

Go Absurd 98 – Why Bother to Bother?

  “…because this blog* is absurd, I love it; because it is useless, I want to give it away; and because wanting to give it to you serves no purpose, I give it to you…” (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet ) *book (in the original quote from Pessoa) Quote of the Day “To work and create 'for nothing', to sculpture in clay, to know that one's creation has no future, to see one's work destroyed in a day while being aware that fundamentally this has no more importance than building for centuries -- this is the difficult wisdom that absurd thought sanctions. Performing these two tasks simultaneously, negating on one hand and magnifying on the other, is the way open to the absurd creator. He must give the void its colors.” (ALBERT CAMUS,  The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays ) A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said Two in the oven is worth three in the town A Sometimes Cruel and Absurd World… A British man has been bitten by...

Go Absurd 97 – Read What You Believe

  “…because this blog* is absurd, I love it; because it is useless, I want to give it away; and because wanting to give it to you serves no purpose, I give it to you…” (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet ) *book (in the original quote from Pessoa) Quote of the Day “Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.” (Alan Watts) A Wise and Foolish Saying That Will Probably Never Be Said Is the glass half-empty or empty? A Sometimes Cruel and Absurd World… A freak gust of wind has lifted a jumping castle seven metres in the air resulting in serious injuries to two children who have undergone surgery and are now in a serious but stable condition https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-09/children-in-surgery-after-freak-jumping-castle-incident/12863504 Book Title You Will Probably Never See… How To Get The Job You Don’t Want By Trying, AKA, Living   Absurd Magazine Article Title… 86 Ways To Pleasure Your Partner To...